Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Panama and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Barrington Levy to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ten City,
Absolute Body Control,
Echospace,
Essential Logic,
The Cramps,
Idris Muhammad,
Whodini,
Pagans,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Detroit Cobras,
Theoretical Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Dead Boys,
Eurythmics,
The Zeros,
Al Stewart,
Stiv Bators,
Ohio Players,
Fugazi,
Audionom,
Toni Rubio,
the Slits,
Rod Modell,
The Monks,
Monolake,
Fat Boys,
Electric Light Orchestra,
David Axelrod,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Arcadia,
Duran Duran,
Delta 5,
Q and Not U,
Aloha Tigers,
The Vogues,
Letta Mbulu,
CMW,
Circle Jerks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Outsiders,
Symarip,
Depeche Mode,
Gregory Isaacs,
Siglo XX,
Tubeway Army,
Cybotron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wasted Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lee Hazlewood,
Joey Negro,
The Fortunes,
T.S.O.L.,
Pole, Pole, Pole, Pole.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.